Twitter seems to be having a few problems holding on to its celebrity Tweeters of late. Lily Allen and Miley Cyrus have both quit recently, and Stephen Fry may be about to add his name to this list of Twitter quitters. The problem is that getting up close and personal with fans isn’t always a positive experience.

One of the most annoying things about Facebook is the amount of spammers attacking the social media site. As popularity in social communities rise, spammers have started to target these sites aggressively. One online marketer recently got slammed with a hefty suit awarding Facebook $711 million in damages.

Music download site BlueBeat is offering up a treat this Halloween weekend, but we suspect it will be getting a trick come Monday morning.

The iPhone has gone on sale in China, ushering in a new wave of American – Chinese relations, based not on cold war tensions or brinkmanship, but on smartphone technology.

Although the rumors have been flying for quite some time, a Google executive insists that it will not be getting into the hardware business to manufacturing handsets for Android phones.

Google has, for almost the whole of October, been experimenting with a new minimalist homepage, which gets rid of everything but the Google logo and the search box. Not everyone will have yet seen the test site though many have. The level of minimalism and wording on display seems to have varied considerably. But what, ultimately, is the point? Is this a pointless exercise that is confusing users?

Google learned a valuable lesson today about always making sure your PDF documents are always properly formatted, otherwise you may reveal more about your operations than you intended.

At this point in the Apple Tablet rumor cycle, people are trying to glean whatever information they can, and if that means reading between the lines of what Apple executives say, so be it.

The latest iTunes update again breaks the Palm Pre’s “unofficial” sync capability in a game of cat and mouse that can only serve to drive away paying iTunes customers.

The Internet’s governing body has backed plans to allow non-English characters to be used in Web site addresses. The move has the potential to increase Internet use dramatically around the world.

The average Web user is a savvy individual who tends to err on the side of caution when surfing, sticking to trustworthy sites and only opening attachments to files they know are safe. But links are a different matter, especially if they are shortened into the random jumble of letters and numbers which populate social networking sites these days. Luckily, the spammers and scammers don’t have it all their own way.

WordPress 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been released in the iTunes App Store.

In what has to be the most unsurprising news of the year, it is looking fairly likely that the Nintendo Wii will soon be getting streaming video content courtesy of Netflix.

Amazon has launched a Web payments scheme that allows shoppers to use a memorable phrase and a PIN code in place of a user name and password. It seems utterly pointless, particularly given the lack of participating sites.

Want to write an application for LinkedIn that spreads between users or introduces people with similar interests? With those kinds of features closed, it’s no wonder that nobody is writing apps for LinkedIn.

Just a couple of decade ago, the only way to have a wealth of information available at your fingertips was to purchase a costly and bulky set of encyclopedias. These could take up a whole bookshelf and cost a month’s wages. Now, the Internet offers that wealth of information in the form of Wikipedia. And the WikiReader brings Wikipedia to your pocket for under $100.

Google has officially launched a new music component to its search engine which should make it possible for you to find just about any song you want, even if you only know a few of the lyrics.